On used games and meteor explosions: 13 articles you may have missed

Catch the best of Ars Technica in this handy list.

This week saw some unexpected events as well as some long-anticipated newsworthy items. We wrote about used game blocking in consoles, looking the rumor that Microsoft might make its consoles secondhand-free. We also took a look at mobile CPU developments to address where the industry is going in the future. And we delved into the three-month-old gossip that Apple puts new employees on fake projects to test their loyalty.

In the midst of all that, a UK company tried to wrest the Python name from the free software foundation by trademarking the term when used in conjunction with computer products, the Obama administration defended a large file-sharing verdict that would have gone to the Supreme Court, and to top it all off, a meteor exploded over central Russia.